Unique study: birds avoid wind turbine blades
group.vattenfall.com
Seabirds deliberately avoid wind turbine rotor blades offshore – that is the main finding of a new study that mapped the flightpaths of thousands of birds around wind turbines in the North Sea. Most importantly, during two years of monitoring using cameras and radar, not a single bird was recorded colliding with a rotor blade.
  • CrimsonSage@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I always thought that the whole “wind turbines kill birds” thing was xomplete horseshit. Like birds aren’t stupid and don’t fly into trees, why would windmils be any different.

  • Gabbo [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    “hey I’m doing a study. How many dead birds have you seen in the ocean under your turbines?”

    “Uhh, I think none.”

    “INCREDIBLE FINDINGS FROM NEW STUDY”

    jk good for them

  • blobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    lol this is literally a press release on a Wind energy company’s website, specifically “one of Europe’s largest energy companies” according to themsevles. You’re seriously posting a company’s press release on here?

    Vattenfall is Denmark’s largest offshore wind operator, and is also active in onshore wind, charging solutions and electricity supply.

    lmao

    • Parzivus [any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Companies employ consulting studies pretty regularly to make sure they won’t be held liable for environmental damages either. It’s not the same vein as PR research because good PR/fake results don’t stop lawsuits. I don’t know about Denmark, but in the US, they’d be following EPA standards for an Environmental Site Assessment.
      The study is linked in the article, they used a combination of video cameras and radar detectors. Please let me know if any of it is inaccurate.